in the next two weeks that will point us in the direction for the rest of the year. we'll get numbers on personal income, likely to be down. numbers on big ticket orders, refrigerators, mike waves, tv sets, computers, likely to be down. the service and manufacturing sectors, both expected to be down. consumer sentiment down. and then on the friday of next week, it may be that the unemployment rate goes up to 8% again. all of this because of the taxes that we're imposed on january the 1st, higher gas price, the spending cuts that now look likely, and the threat of even more and higher taxes still to come from the president. it is gas prices are a real problem here. martha: interesting. you're talking about the payroll tax that went up across the board and gas prices going up. it makes you sort of think back to when the president said you can't raise taxes during a recession, a difficult economic period. it didn't make sense. this time they decided they had to do it because they were pushed past the mark last time and didn't want to say they would do it again. >> martha, that was then,
